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Velta Berzins, CAFA
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Nov. 7, 2011 - Velta Berzins, CAFA, of Toronto, Ont. was presented the
2011 World Flower Council Floral Noble Prize Award on Sept. 25 at the
World Flower Council Summit in Heathrow, England.
Velta has been actively involved with
World Flower Council International since 2005 – “Flowers Out of this World” in
Ottawa/Gatineau, Canada. She has
participated in World Flower Council Summits in Nice, France, Macau, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, Auckland, New Zealand and Heathrow, England.
Velta has been in the flower business since the
early 1990s. Prior to this time managed
a property/casualty insurance company and left the insurance industry as the vice president of Fairfax Financial Corporation in 1993. She completed the requirements for CAFA
and has served on the boards of Canadian Academy of Floral Art. Over the years, she has been involved with Flowers Canada,
Seneca College as director of the Student Advisory Council, and very active in
World Flower Council International.
Velta has
been creating and editing the World Flower Council Newsletter since the fall of
2009, along with Don Patrick, the World Flower Council executive secretary. She was instrumental in
the artistic update of the WFC newsletter and in the immediate distribution of
the newsletter through the WFC MobileMe account.
Velta
continues to participate in many floral design shows. She, along with six other WFC and CAFA members portrayed
Canada in a unique way at the AIFD Symposium in Boston in 2010. She continues to work on Canada Blooms
and the annual Canadian JUNO Awards.
During her
busy career, in 1988 Velta married Doug Bush and inherited a son and daughter
and now has five grandchildren.
She even takes time to play and spends January and February in Costa
Rica.
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